Storage and beyond

Elliptics as Video-On-Demand storage

We have moved video archive of our friends at FC Dynamo to Elliptics storage and in parallel upgraded video streaming from Flash to HTML5.

Besides the fact this solution scales well, it is much faster. Mostly because of Flash vs HTML5 but also because of Elliptics underlying storage vs plain filesystem.

Architecture of the project is rather simple, .NET frontend creates redirect link to onf of the storage servers located in Germany and Netherlands, and server streams data directly to client’s browser. This solution does not use adaptive HLS/DASH streaming, but plain on-demand or progressive download.